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FICTION / Action & Adventure FICTION / Thrillers / General FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense Government investigators Government investigators Fiction Large type books Murder Investigation Private investigators Scientific expeditions Fiction Special operations (Military science) FictionPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: Curator Nora Kelly is approached by historian Clive Benton to lead an expedition unlike any other. Nora agrees, and they venture into the Sierra Nevada in search of the Donner Party camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC PRERollins, James
Summary: "A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state while the plants and animals around them have grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading across the African...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROLCussler, Clive
Summary: In 1074 B.C., vast treasures disappear from the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs. In 1927, a daredevil American aviator vanished on an attempted transcontinental flight. And in the present day, a fishing trawler with a mysterious cargo sinks off the coast of Scotland. As the NUMA team searches for the trawler, they are joined by agents of the British MI5 to take on a wide-reaching international...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction CusPryor, Mark
Summary: "Hugo Marston, head of security for the U.S. Embassy in Paris, puts his life in danger when he investigates the murder of a celebrated artist, all the while fending off an assassin looking to settle an old score against him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books 2019
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Summary: To stop the world from burning, it's up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet. The Titan Project-an international research station off the coast of Australia-discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange bioluminescent coral that defies science, yet holds great promise for the future. But the loss of a military submarine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROLRollins, James
Summary: For eons, the city of Troy--whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer's Iliad--was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth century uncovered its ancient walls buried beneath the sands. In the frozen tundra of Greenland, a group of modern-day researchers stumble on a shocking find: a medieval ship buried a half-mile below the ice. The ship's hold contains a collection of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROLCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction RollinsRollins, James
Summary: "In the remote mountains of Croatia, an archaeologist makes a strange discovery: a subterranean Catholic chapel, hidden for centuries, holds the bones of a Neanderthal woman. In the same cavern system, elaborate primitive paintings tell the story of an immense battle between tribes of Neanderthals and monstrous shadowy figures. Who is this mysterious enemy depicted in these ancient drawings,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROLDionne, Karen
Summary: Although happily married now, Helena Pelletier was raised in Michigan's isolated marshlands by an abusive father. When he escapes from prison, only Helena will know just how to find him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio, [2017] 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DIOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CDA Fiction DioChild, Lee
Summary: 1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look like accidents and don't appear to be connected. Until one body, the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window, generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who promptly calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is assigned as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC CHIPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: "FBI Special Agent Pendergast is pitted against his most personal foe: His brother, Diogenes, has planned a horrendous crime and is framing Pendergast for a series of terrible murders."--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PREPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: In the wake of a series of bizarre murders in which claw prints are found near each of the victims, agent Pendergast teams up with officer Vincent d'Agosta in an investigation with apparent ties to the supernatural.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PrestWomack, Gwendolyn
Summary: "Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house, specializing in deciphering ancient texts. And when she discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her career. Its author tells the story of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history, but as Semele delves further she realizes the manuscript is more than it seems. Both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOMHooper, Kay
Summary: "A town shrouded in the occult. An evil that lurks in the dark. The SCU returns in a hair-raising novel from New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper. Nellie Cavendish has very good reasons to seek out her roots, and not only because she has no memory of her mother and hardly knew the father who left her upbringing to paid caregivers. In the eight years since her twenty-first birthday, very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HOOPatterson, James
Summary: "In a Virginia penitentiary, Detective Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped to convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse. 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.' Was an innocent man just put to death? Alex soon realizes he may have much to answer for, as 'M' lures the detective out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Patterson 2019Preston, Douglas J.
Summary: A seemingly straightforward private case turns out to be much more complicated -- and sinister -- than Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast ever could have anticipated. Pendergast, together with his ward Constance Greene, travels to the quaint seaside village of Exmouth, Massachusetts, to investigate the theft of a priceless wine collection. But inside the wine cellar, they find something...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Preston 2015Woods, Stuart
Summary: "Stone Barrington has wiggled his way out of some tricky situations before, but his latest adversary might pose the biggest threat he's ever faced. This time, it will take every bit of his shrewd cunning to come out on top."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Woods 2018Eisler, Barry.
Summary: John Rain is back. And the assassin is up against his most formidable enemy yet: the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate factions known only as the Oligarchy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EISCussler, Clive
Summary: Hired to search for a collection of paintings worth half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon soon find themselves in much deeper waters. The vicious leader of a Filipino insurgency is not only using them to finance his attacks, he has stumbled upon one of the most lethal secrets of World War II: a Japanese-developed drug, designed, but never used, to turn soldiers into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CUSWoods, Stuart
Summary: Former CIA operative Teddy Fay lands in Santa Fe in the company of his friend Stone Barrington. There, fate hands him an opportunity to avenge his recent personal tragedy from a man who helped cover up the crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOChild, Lee
Summary: Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun, until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel. Dead? No, nothing is what it seems. The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who might be mixed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC CHIWoods, Stuart
Summary: Stone Barrington is looking forward to some quiet time in NYC, but he is asked to transport top-secret cargo across the Atlantic. Taking on the challenge, Stone flies off, unaware of what he is bringing with him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: When Stone Barrington is introduced to a glamorous socialite, he soon realizes that his intriguing new companion has some surprisingly familiar ties and other far more sinister ones, including a nefarious enemy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOAndrews, Brian
Summary: Secretary of State Frank Malone has been kidnapped from his Cairo hotel, his security detail wiped out. President Natalie Cohen is left with several unacceptable options. It's time to think outside the box, and that can only mean one thing: the revival of the Presidential Agent program. Cohen calls for Charley Castillo to come out of retirement to direct a new Presidential Agent, one Captain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: In retreat from a devastating loss and crushing injustice, Katie lives alone in a fortresslike stone house on Jacob's Ladder island. Once a rising star in the art world, she finds refuge in her painting. The neighboring island of Ringrock houses a secret: a government research facility. And now two agents have arrived on Jacob's Ladder in search of someone, or something, they refuse to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023